Acquisition of Key-Pecking via Autoshaping as a Function of Prior Experience: "Learned Laziness"?
- 1 December 1972
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 178 (4064) , 1002-1004
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.178.4064.1002
Abstract
A group of pigeons that had previously received noncontingent food delivery acquired the key-peck response (in autoshape training) more slowly than did a naive control group; key-peck acquisition was most rapid for a group given operant treadle-press training in the initial phase.Keywords
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